When Jiang Yuebai found Shi Xiaowu, he was explaining basic arithmetic to new qi-training disciples in the lecture hall at Tiancrying Peak.
Among the more than thirty disciples below, none are over ten years old, and they are all children.
Most of them listened attentively, kept writing notes, or used abacus and calculation chips to make calculations.
This is also what Master requires. Just like when Master chose to popularize the Five Elements Rotation to young people, Master has always believed that the foundation should be laid from childhood. Learning these things will be faster when you are young than when you are an adult.
Jiang Yuebai lowered his presence and looked at the current Shi Xiaowu from outside. He was still at the peak of foundation building. He had tried to form pills three times, but all ended in failure.
So his life span is almost over, but he has taken fifty-year-old life-extending pills and beauty-preserving pills, so he still looks young in his twenties.
But Jiang Yuebai could still feel his age from his slow movements and tired eyes.
Master is also very sorry and sad for Shi Xiaowu, but pill formation is the biggest threshold in a monk's life. If you cross it, your life span will be extended. The sea and sky are vast. If you can't cross it, you can only live on the life extension pill.
Shi Xiaowu's situation is the norm among Five Spiritual Root cultivators.
Junior sister Jiang Ziying modified the "Five Elements Returning True Skill" left by Jiang Yuebai back then, which speeded up her practice, but she was currently stuck at the peak of foundation building.
However, Jiang Ziying is still young and is better than Shi Xiaowu in practicing Five Elements Kung Fu, and has a higher chance of successfully forming the elixir.
The master said that Shi Xiaowu's failure in forming an elixir was due to his state of mind. He was determined to find out the amount of spiritual energy required to form an elixir. He always felt that without specific and accurate figures, he would definitely fail.
Shi Xiaowu went to the extreme and used the "Dayan Sutra" and "Dayan Sutra" to convert everything into numbers. Everything must have fixed standards. Anything that is ambiguous or illusory will not pass the test in his heart.
Shi Xiaowu is an absolute genius in the way of numbers, but the understanding required to practice a way cannot be expressed in terms of numbers.
But Shi Xiaowu has not been without achievements in recent years. He has done a world-shaking thing, which is to accurately quantify the elixir recipe.
How many spiritual plants are used, how much spiritual liquid is extracted, how much firepower, how long the calcination takes, how many auxiliary materials are added at the end, smoldering time, smoldering temperature, etc., are all quantified to the smallest and most accurate unit.
His set of things was initially scolded and despised by the group of old people in Hedan Hall, saying that he complicated the simple alchemy.
But fortunately, the Great Elder of Hedan Hall, Master Yulu, who once taught Jiang Yuebai, is very open-minded and gave Shi Xiaowu ten years and enough resources to try, and also personally helped many times in the process.
In the end, Shi Xiaowu succeeded. Using his quantitative elixir recipe, a qi practitioner disciple who had never been exposed to elixir refining only needed to be familiar with it for three to five days to become more and more successful and more and more stable in refining extremely high-quality elixirs. Pill.
Nowadays, the large-scale supply of low-grade and high-grade elixirs has become one of the main sources of income for Tianyan Sect.
Currently, Shi Xiaowu is working with Qi Yue to try to combine puppetry with alchemy. If successful, low-level elixirs can be automatically refined.
It has to be said that both Shi Xiaowu and Qi Yue were actually influenced by Jiang Yuebai. They were inspired by her previous whimsical ideas, and their ideas were opened up and no longer limited by inherent things.
Shi Xiaowu was an absolute genius, and his road-building should not stop like this, so Li Jiuchuan was extremely distressed and helpless, and asked Jiang Yuebai to help him think of a way, at least to help him pass the pill formation stage.
In fact, there are many ways, but most of them are evil ways. Jiang Yuebai knows that with the character of the master, it is impossible for her to agree to her using those evil ways. Even Shi Xiaowu himself cannot accept it.
So Jiang Yuebai currently has no clue what to do.
At the end of the class, many children dragged Shi Xiaowu to ask questions. It can be seen that the children in class now really like math and respect Shi Xiaowu.
After finally waiting for Shi Xiaowu to get out, he was stunned for a moment when he saw Jiang Yuebai. After a while, his eyes started to shine a little bit.
It's a pity that his current old body no longer allows him to jump up and down and yell like the stupid boy he used to be.
With some tears in his eyes, Shi Xiaowu walked slowly and staggeringly to Jiang Yuebai's side.
"Sister, you are really back. I thought Master was lying to us."
Jiang Yuebai suppressed her sadness and raised a smile, "Master Duan Fang, a gentleman, have you ever deceived anyone, where is my little junior sister?"
Shi Xiaowu glanced at the direction of the top of the mountain and said, "While in retreat, the elixir formation failed once before. Master has been guiding me for more than half a year. This time I should be sure of success."
A trace of envy and bitterness flashed across Shi Xiaowu's eyes.
Jiang Yuebai sighed secretly, but did not show it, and asked, "Where are Guo Zhen and Hong Tao?"
Guo Zhen regarded Shi Xiaowu as his own son. Hong Tao was kind to Jiang Yuebai back then. When Jiang Yuebai came back, he would naturally care about the two of them.
Shi Xiaowu motioned Jiang Yuebai to follow him to another quiet room to chat. As he walked, he said, "My godfather and senior brother Hong were also stuck in the late stage of foundation building and could not move forward. Now they have given up and have exchanged the longevity pills. Come back to the mortal world."
Jiang Yuebai nodded slightly. In fact, there were many such things.
A considerable number of the old people in the sect who are unable to form elixirs will return to their hometowns in the mortal world, rely on the Tianyan Sect, establish small families, train younger generations of the same clan, and continue to provide talents to the world of cultivation.
In the Tianyan Sect, they are just low-level disciples who cannot form pills, but in the mortal world, they can become the 'ancestors' of the family and are highly respected. It is not bad to end the rest of their lives like this.
Jiang Yuebai asked Shi Xiaowu where they founded their family. If they pass by later, they can go and have a look and leave some of their skills and books with them so that their family can have the opportunity to develop better.
In the quiet room, Jiang Yuebai asked Shi Xiaowu about his experiences over the years and helped him check his physical condition.
Shi Xiaowu has not left the sect much in these years and has been studying several ways, formation ways and alchemy ways in Tianyan Sect.
His body was indeed running out of oil, and the Life-Extension Pill only hung on to his life, allowing him to continue living in such an old state.
After Jiang Yuebai investigated, he probably had an idea in his mind.
The easy thing is to help him replenish his essence and temporarily regain his body's vitality. This can be done with her Yunzhi and transformation magic.
But what's difficult is Shi Xiaowu's state of mind, his obsession with the Tao.
Anything that is extremely good will inevitably be accompanied by extreme badness. This is the balance of heaven and earth, the number of yin and yang.
It's not that Shi Xiaowu didn't understand, but he was obsessed with counting and couldn't help it.
"...Sister, don't worry about me. Maybe when I live another life a hundred years later, this won't be the case."
Live a new life?
Jiang Yuebai's mind was flashing with lightning, and he suddenly thought of a way to try.
"Brother Xiaowu, I have brought you something good again. Please give it a try. Once you try it, you will definitely be able to form the elixir successfully."
A somewhat familiar voice suddenly came from outside, and then a stern-looking monk in blue came in through the window.
He just stood still and suddenly saw Jiang Yuebai in the room. His eyes widened and he backed away in shock and disbelief.
"Jiang Yuebai, you!"
After seeing the person clearly, Jiang Yuebai stood up and faced Li Shenzhi, straightened his sleeves and gave a bad smile.
"Shen's nephew, calling his uncle by his first name, isn't it too inappropriate?"
Li Shenzhi was stunned, angry and speechless.
besides……
